by Sarah Edmonds | 20 Nov 2020 | Educators' Catalog, Health and Wellness
Experts had foreseen a coronavirus pandemic, but COVID-19 has still inflicted untold damage on the world. Will we draw the right lessons this time? A man walks past a poster warning that consuming wildlife is illegal, in Guangzhou, China, 25 May 2020. (EPA-EFE/ALEX...
The coronavirus has given us mountains of data and an escalating mortality toll. News Decoder correspondent Sarah Edmonds moves beyond real-time developments and the numbers to ask world-class experts — a lead investigator for one of the top vaccine trials, a research fellow at Cambridge University and an official at the World Health Organization — what lessons the world will draw from the pandemic. Often, solid reporting boils down to asking simple questions and then finding the right people for answers. Edmonds follows that script in her handling of a complex topic. A model for our students.
by Ashley Stumvoll | 6 Nov 2020 | Africa, Health and Wellness, Science, University of Toronto Journalism Fellows
Worried that COVID-19 could hurt the fight against malaria, aid groups have redoubled efforts to save lives in Africa. The worst may have been avoided. Mobile clinic in Central African Republic treating people against malaria (Ton Koene/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)...
by Tendayi Chirawu | 30 Oct 2020 | Environment, Thacher School, Youth Voices
In our latest podcast episode, two students at Thacher School in California examine how COVID-19 is affecting youth climate change activism. The coronavirus pandemic has forced many young people around the world to stay home. So how is COVID-19 affecting young...
by Alexander Nicoll | 12 Oct 2020 | Politics, United States
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson won power as populists, backed by angry voters. Now COVID-19 is exposing their shortcomings in the U.S. and UK. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson (R) and U.S. President Donald J. Trump (L) in London, 4 December 2019 (EPA-EFE/PETER...
by Susan Ruel | 7 Oct 2020 | Health and Wellness, Politics
Both the 1918 flu pandemic and COVID-19 struck during crucial U.S. elections, infecting the nation’s leaders. But in 1918, a world war was raging. A hospital in Kansas during the 1918 flu epidemic (Wikimedia Commons) After six months of sheltering in place due...